Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:23:41 +0000 | From | James Courtier-Dutton <> | Subject | Re: Coding Style: indenting with tabs vs. spaces |
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DervishD wrote: > Bonjour Xavier :) > > * Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> dixit: > >> Le samedi 10 novembre 2007 à 13:04 +0100, DervishD a écrit : >> >>> * Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> dixit: >>> >>>> I would like to hear peoples opinion about the indentation convention >>>> described below that I personally found the most practical with >>>> several different editors. >>>> >>> While I respect you opinion about tabs, I find tab indentation the most >>> evil thing ever invented. Even if done right (that is, not indenting >>> using a mixture of spaces and tabs), the only advantage is that you save >>> a few bytes. >>> >> Who cares ? >> > > About the space saving? Not me, of course. It's just that I didn't see > any other advantage. > > >> The only advantage is that people can make tabs as big (or as small) >> as they wish. Tabs become "logical indentation". So one's indentation >> isn't forced on anotherone's editor. >> > > The only way of having a sane indentation using tabs is to make sure > that ALL indentation are tabs, not a mix of tabs and spaces (spaces, if > any, should be at the end of indentation for aesthetical purposes, but > should be removed without the logical indentation being lost). A good > editor can ensure that all indentation are tabs and not a mix, but a > good editor can adapt indentation to your likings when loading the file > and save the file translating your favourite indentation back to spaces > or whatever. > > If everybody used tabs correctly, indenting using tabs would be great, > but IMHO indenting with spaces is much better. > > Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado > >
Just use the linux
./scripts/checkpatch.pl --file
It does all the indent checks for you before you submit a patch. I.e. I checks that one has not mixed tabs with spaces etc. So, any patches to the Linux kernel will have tabs used correctly. Where is the problem?
James
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